Virus associated hemophagocytic syndrome accompanied by acute respiratory failure caused by influenza A (H3N2)

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 1183-1186

  Ando, Masaru ^a   Miyazaki, Eishi ^a   Hiroshige, Shigeo ^a   Ashihara, Yoshinori ^a   Okubo, Toshiyuki ^a   Ueo, Mami ^a   Fukami, Tetsujiro ^a   Sugisaki, Katsunori ^a   Tsuda, Tomiyasu ^b   Ohishi, Kazunari ^a   Yoshitake, Shigenori ^a   Noguchi, Takayuki ^a   Kumamoto, Toshihide ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Shinbeppu Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory failure; Influenza; Virus associated hemophagocytic syndrome

Indexed keywords

CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NICORANDIL; SIVELESTAT; TETRACYCLINE;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTINUOUS HEMODIAFILTRATION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CYTOPENIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HISTIOCYTE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A; JAPAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG INFILTRATE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYOCARDITIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BRONCHI; CARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GAMMA-GLOBULINS; GLYCINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H3N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYOCARDITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SULFONAMIDES; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33751192025     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1736     Document Type: Article

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